This is getting old....#4

“Billy opened his mouth, and out came a deep, resonant tone. His voice was a gorgeous instrument. it told jokes which brought down the house. It grew serious, told jokes again, and ended on a note of humility. The explanation was this: Billy had taken a course in public speaking.

 And then he was back in the bed of the frozen creek again. Roland Weary was about to beat the living shit out of him.

Weary was filled with a tragic wrath. He had been ditched again. He stuffed his pistol into its holster. He slipped his knife into its scabbard. Its triangular blade and blood gutters on all three faces. And then he shook Billy hard, rattled his skeleton, slammed him against a bank.

Weary barked and whimpered through his layers of scarf from home. He spoke unintelligibly of the sacrifices he had made on Billy's behalf. He dilated upon the piety and heroism of "The Three Musketeers," portrayed, in the most glowing and impassionate hues, their virtue and magnanimity, the imperishable honor they acquired for themselves, and the great services they rendered to Christianity." -pg. 50-51 in "Slaughter House-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

This little excerpt from my book shows just how colorful and senseful Vonnegut writes and how it just wraps you in and make you want to read the book more and more with his beutiful and precise depictions of every little detail.

If I placed Billy Pilgrim in our world today, i believe that he would not fare very well because he had a hard enough time dealing with his world so many years ago, and alot has changed since then. He wouldent be accepted by most people and be considered a nut job. And honestly he would be utterlty usless for anything thats going to happen in our future. He would be severally confused about whats going on in our world today because our problems are alot different than they used to be back in WWII.